St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-05

two of them at least had their wives and
children with them at the meeting, and
that, by the way, always seemed to me
a very strong point in their favor. The
burden of proof sustainS the allegation.
but understand from good authority
that States Attorney Grlnnell denies
the presence at the meeting of these
women and children. If so, it would
seem to me that he ought not to
content himself with simple
denial, but should give to the governor
and the public the proof, for, say what
we will, there is difference between
the absolute commission of murder
and a concert of opinion that at some
time or other it will be wise to commit
murder. Now it being conceded that
these men did not literally commit the
murder, it being denied from the very
first down to to-day by each and every
one of them that the throwing of the
bomb that night was part of their under
standing, you can readily see how
An Old Man,
approaching not only the limit of his
official life, but of his own existence,
might gladly welcome legitimate and
equitable, common sense door, which
would open to him possibility of COM
muting a sentence OF death against
seven men, rather than be con-
fronted by his official duty and be COM
PEELED to sign his name seven times,
each time to death warrant of man
who literally did not commit the muir
der. You see, these policemen are dead
and gone. If they were here to show
their battered faces, thier mutilated
bodies, their mangled limbs, it
would be very easy to work up
sympathy for them. Being dead.
they are long since forgotten, and
you can walk the streets of Chicago
from early morn until dewy eve, you
can sit in every church, you can attend
every theater and go out, as poor old
Charlie Thorn used to say, "between
each act" and never hear word, nor
catch hear, nor hear sigh for the
memory of those departed men, while
you cannot move an inch along one of
Chicagos crowded streets without ell
cOuntering weak-minded, sOft-hearted,
flabby handed citizen who will whine
his impression that, perhaps, after all,
peradventure, it might be better not to
hang these men. This being the un-
doubted sense of several of the Chicago
newspapers. and being the unques-
toned atmosphere artificially created by
the spectacle of
Poor Little Mrs. Parsons
selling her tracts on the streets, pro-
duced by the daily reports of the
visits of the wives and sWeethearts and
children of the anarchists to their
barred cells, what wonder is it that the
weak old man in Springfield hesitates,
and regards the matter with grave
sOlemnity? His is no pleasant place.
His is no desirable duty. But high Of
flee brings with it grave responsibilities,
and the best friends of Richard J.OgleS-
by to-day look to him in his official
chamber to do his duty, as indicated by
the jury which pronounced the men
guilty and sentenced them to be hanged,
by the supreme court which carefully
and at some distance of time after
the original trial reviewed and
indorsed unanimously the conduct of
the trial, and by the United States su-
preme court, which at great length and
in most significant terms unQuaifiedly
indorsed the position of the state
Illinois. The fatal mistake of the an
archSts was made at the very outset of
their public career. 1t was their Sc
lection of the business" by which to
earn living. They went into the bus
mess of posing as champions of the
labOring classes without being labOring
men themselves, or if any of them were
labOring men. they were affected with
an unfoItuna disinclination to work,
preferring to live on the bounty and
patronage of those people who did
work. They sought to persuade the
working classes that they were
Their Special Champions
by preaching incendiarism, ruin and
murder in order to reconstruct so
ciety," hoping thus to ingratiate them
selves into the confidence of the toiling
masses for the sake of the revenue there
would be in the business" They were
counting upon making good living of
the operation, and, if they had sue
ceeded in 'reconstructing society,""
they of course anticipated the chances
Of placing themselves foremost and on
top of the new order of things, with all
the financial or political benefits to be
gained from head leadership. This
was the mistake they made-the mis-
take of selecting business" that had
no hard work in it, but which, as they
supposed, promised ultimate rewards of
the, ichest kind. The fellow who joins
a gang of thieves and adopts the ''busi-
ness of larceny makes the same mis-
take The highway rObber, the burglar.
every criminal who goes into the ''busi-
ness" of preying upon honest men and
making a living by lawless adventures,
makes precisely the same mistake. 1t
usually proves
A Fatal Misstep
in life, and it has proved SO in the case
of Spies, Lingg, Parsons and their CO.
e0nspiratOrs.
The outward appearance of things
around the criminal court building this
morning was in 10 way different from
what it has been for months back, and
there was nothing to suggest that it was
for the nOnce being used as an armory
and fortress. The police drafted there
the day before still keep guard, but
people might pass in and out of the
building time and again and never
know they were there. Lieut.. Laughlin
keeps the fifty men under his command
in the building well out of sight, allow
ing none, not even reporters, to 90 TO
the third floor of the building, on which
they are quartered. He does not allow
his men to be idle, but keeps them un-
dergoing drill several hours each day.so
that should they be called upon to use
the abundant stock of weapons with